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The QC, Vol. 89, No. 16 • February 13, 2003

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The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
February 13,2003
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ALLISON CORONA' QC STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Inga Musico, author of the book Cunt, spoke against
violence to women at The Club on Tuesday, Feb. 11 as
a part of the week-long V-Day celebration. During her
discussion, she advocated a re-imagining ofthe connotations of the word "cunt." For full story, see page 10.
State budget cuts lead
to decreased Cal Grants
■ FUNDING
by Lakisha Dubar
QC Associate News Editor
California graduate and undergraduate students that will be
receiving the Cal Grant for the
upcoming academic year 2003-
2004, will not only have to adjust
to a new school environment, but
will also have to pay more money
out of their pockets to attend
school.
Earlier this year, Governor
Gray Davis passed a budget that
decreased the amount of financial aid dispersed to students for
higher education. The reduction
in money allocated to students
through Cal Grants is a result of
the deficit in California state
funding.
According to the California Student Aide Commission Web site,
"Cal Grant awards are state funded monetary grants given to stu-
"If Whittier is unable to
support the full decrease,
then the student who
receives the Cal Grant
will have to pay out-of-
pocket expenses to
cover the gap."
Nina Martinez
Director of Financial Aide
dents to help pay for college expenses. The grants do not have to
be paid back."
This budget cut only affects
California schools with students
in the new academic year 2003-
2004. Students with existing
grants will not be affected by this
change. According to Director of
Financial Aid Nina Martinez,
"The deficit affects Whittier College in a decrease of $876.00.
[per student.]" Whittier College
is coping with the loss by applying a plan that will protect the
institution and its students.
According to Martinez, the
plan will correlate with the new
budget cut. "The school will have
to come up with additional funding to offset the decrease in state
funding. If Whittier is unable to
support the full decrease, then
the student who receives the Cal
Grant will have to pay out-of-
pocket expenses to cover the
See FUNDING, page 6
Pool closed due to possible contamination
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Facilities and Aquatics department decide no investigation is necessary
■ SWIMMING
by Christina Gutierrez
QC News Editor
After workers from the Facilities department discovered potentially harmful pathogens in the water of the Lillian Slade Aquatics
Center on Thursday, Feb. 6 during
a routing check, the pool was closed
for a total of 24 hours. According to
Associate Director of Facilities
Bruce Lussier, the water needed to
undergo a hyper-chlorinated "shock
treatment" so it would be safe for
swimmers.
Although the shock treatment
only required that the pool be closed
and swimmers for 12 hours, the
pool became over-chlorinated, requiring that it be closed for an additional 12 hours, Director of Aquatics Mitch Carty said. The pool reopened on Friday, Feb 7 and was
then used for a swim meet on Saturday, Feb. 8. "We were happy to
oblige," Carty said. "We try to run
a pretty clean ship here."
Facilities workers test the pool
for possible contaminants every
morning, making sure that the wa
ter and chemical concentrations are
up to Health Department standards,
which allow for zero percent contaminants. Although the water tested fine on Wednesday morning,
according to Lussier, the Thursday
morning pathogen concentration
hovered around 60 percent.
"Anything could have
happened or been
introduced into the
water between
Wednesday morning
and Thursday, and we
will never narrow it
down. There is no
required investigation."
Bruce Lussier
Associate Director of
Facilities
No one is certain as to what the
specific contaminant was that drove
the levels up so high because "the
test is a general test. It just shows
that there is bacteria, and it can
narrow down what it specifically
might be," Lussier said. Although
some of the pathogens that the test
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can identify are
blood-borne,
Facilities has no
evidence that it
was indeed a
blood borne
pathogen that
caused the problem. "We know
that it was not
feces, and if it
were urine, it
would have to
have been
enough to discolor the water.
It might be that
someone cut
themselves."
According
to Carty, however, water polo
players injure
themselves in
the pool on occasion, causing there to be small
amounts of blood in the water, and
this has never caused the levels to
rise before. In fact, according to
Carty, this is the first time that the
pool has been closed due to possible contaminants during the school
year in his seven-year run as direc-
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HELENA NGO / QC PHOTO EDITOR
The Lillian Slade Aquatics center is now free of contaminants, but was closed
Thursday, Feb. 6 and Friday, Feb. 7 after Facilities detected what could have
been pathogens dissolved in the water, making it unsafe to swim in.
tor of aquatics, in addition to his six
years as a student. He has his own
theory about what was in the water.
"It could have been some kind of
severe vomiting; sometimes drunken people climb over the fence at
See SWIMMING, page 6
News You Can Use
Seniors who wish to take (or
re-take) their senior pictures for
The Acropolis can contact the
Office of Student Activities at
Ext. 4986.
ISSUE 16 • VOLUME 89
Feelin' like Winter(s) Cribs n' Travel again
Our faithful COR President
has something to say, and
he wants you to listen, uh,
we mean read.
Opinions, Page 3
The printing problem last week
was remedied, so to start out
Sping term we've got another
double shot of Cribs and Travel!
Campus Life, Pages 8 & 9
CUNT!
Finally! A reason to print
synonyms for vagina. It's all in
spirit of the Vagina Monologues and the gals involved.
A&E, Page 10
Javtalkin'!
Track and field preview and
introduction to the new coaches
for the football and men's soccer
teams. Girl, we got what you need.
Sports, Page 16